... where doors, locks, walls, and arms are not recourses against the menaces of the thief or the wild animal. In short, to perceive any object whatsoever as horrible is to perceive it on the basis of a world which reveals itself as already being horrible" ... Ophelia is famously underrepresented in the play. In "Shakespeare and The Gothic Strain," Linda Charnes makes the observation that we could rewrite it Hamlet narrative, form and it would read like a Gothic fiction. We have a vulnerable young woman sequestered in a cold, dark castle by her domineering ... , and symptomatic repression; ...

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